History Trivia / TheSevenYearItch

** Creator/WalterMatthau did a screen test for the role of Richard Sherman, but the studio [[HilariousInHindsight thought he was too risky an investment because he was still an "unknown"]].

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** Creator/WalterMatthau did a screen test for the role of Richard Sherman, but the studio [[HilariousInHindsight thought he was too risky an investment because he was still an "unknown"]]. Creator/GaryCooper, Creator/WilliamHolden and Creator/JamesStewart were also considered.

** Walter Matthau did a screen test for the role of Richard Sherman, but the studio [[HilariousInHindsight thought he was too risky an investment because he was still an "unknown"]].

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** Walter Matthau Creator/WalterMatthau did a screen test for the role of Richard Sherman, but the studio [[HilariousInHindsight thought he was too risky an investment because he was still an "unknown"]].

* FollowTheLeader: At the time, very few movies opened with ArtisticTitle sequences. Saul Bass supplied the zany [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-seven-year-itch/ credits sequence]] here, and its success with audiences pretty much made his career. And in the 1960s and '70s, it seemed like ''every'' movie comedy opened with a cartoonish sequence of some sort.

*** Originally, the ImagineSpot of the Girl bathing went on to show the plumber dropping his wrench into the tub. As he reaches into the suds for it, the Girl seems blissfully undisturbed about him invading her space.

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*** Originally, the ImagineSpot of the Girl bathing went on to show the plumber dropping his wrench into the tub. As he reaches into the suds for it, the Girl seems blissfully undisturbed about doesn't seem to mind him invading her space.

** Oh, and the movie that AlPacino chose over the aborted remake of this film? ''{{Scarface}}'' (which, actually, was itself a remake, but that's neither here nor there).

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** Oh, and the movie that AlPacino Creator/AlPacino chose over the aborted remake of this film? ''{{Scarface}}'' ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' (which, actually, was itself a remake, but that's neither here nor there).

* {{Deleted Scene}}s: Censorship led to the trimming of two scenes.** Originally, the ImagineSpot of the Girl bathing went on to show the plumber dropping his wrench into the tub. As he reaches into the suds for it, the Girl seems blissfully undisturbed about him invading her space.** This dialogue the Girl delivers to Richard after having her skirt blown by the subway also never made it to theaters:--->'''The Girl:''' This one's even cooler! Must be an express. Don't you wish you had a skirt? I feel so sorry for you in those hot pants.

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* {{Deleted Scene}}s: Scene}}s: ** Censorship led to the trimming of two scenes.** *** Originally, the ImagineSpot of the Girl bathing went on to show the plumber dropping his wrench into the tub. As he reaches into the suds for it, the Girl seems blissfully undisturbed about him invading her space.** *** This dialogue the Girl delivers to Richard after having her skirt blown by the subway also never made it to theaters:--->'''The ---->'''The Girl:''' This one's even cooler! Must be an express. Don't you wish you had a skirt? I feel so sorry for you in those hot pants.pants.** A scene written, but probably never filmed, involved Richard's housekeeper finding a hairpin on his pillow, implying that he and the Girl slept together.

* {{Deleted Scene}}s: Censorship led to the trimming of two scenes.** Originally, the ImagineSpot of the Girl bathing went on to show the plumber dropping his wrench into the tub. As he reaches into the suds for it, the Girl seems blissfully undisturbed about him invading her space.** This dialogue the Girl delivers to Richard after having her skirt blown by the subway also never made it to theaters:--->'''The Girl:''' This one's even cooler! Must be an express. Don't you wish you had a skirt? I feel so sorry for you in those hot pants.

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